Fortune Favors The Bold
By Mitch Berg
To: The Minnesota GOP Legislative Caucuses
From: Mitch Berg, on behalf of a majority of MN voters
Re: He Who Dares Wins
Dear House and Senate GOP Cauci:
You remember us, right? After you got your heads handed to you at the polls in 2006 and 2008, losing both chambers, we turned out in droves to put you all back in the majority in both chambers. We looked at Obamacare’s price tag, and at Mark Dayton’s plans to rifle through our wallets (directly and indirectly), and at the feckless entitled-brat sloth of the ruling DFL supermajority, and your message – govern within our means, where “our means” doesn’t mean “everything we can grab from you” – resonated.
Let’s stress; we did not sent you to Saint Paul because of any special affection for the MNGOP, or because we liked your smiles, or anything of the sort. It was because you said you were going to make the tough choices, govern like you weren’t there to become part of government, and halt the unchecked growth of Minnesota’s bureaucracy and the government/educational/industrial complex.
And you’ve done a decent job. in many ways – notwithstanding the collapse of the MInnesota Republican Party, naturally. Reforming taxes, especially business taxes, is huge. So is Voter ID; in a year, we’ll be a lot less like Chicago than we are now. That’s all to the good.
But let’s talk about Right to Work.
Minnesota is well down the path Wisconsin was, mortgaging our future to the well-being of the state employees’ unions. It needs to be stopped. And you have not only the right bill – the “Right to Work” amendment – but the support of well over 2/3 of Minnesotans, across all political spectra.
Now, rumor has it there are 5-6 of you who are holding out – and the amendment needs three votes to get moving.
We’re going to keep calling the leaderhip – who at the House and Senate are…:
- Rep. Kurt Zellers – Speaker of the House (rep.kurt.zellers@house.mn / 651-296-5502)
- Sen. David Senjem – Senate Majority Leader (sen.david.senjem@senate.mn / 651.296.3903)
…but soon, we’ll have to start calling the rest of you. This has to happen. There is no excuse not to.
We sent you there to change things. This is one of the big changes that’s gotta happen. Small business knows it. Mainstreet knows it. And judging by the hysteria it’s already provoked, you can bet the DFL knows it.
So let’s do this.
You might just wake up this November and find that the people who put you there, kept you there.
That is all.
April 10th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Or has it been an avalanche of racism, misogyny, and HATE from you and your ilk, mberg?
“The GOP and Tea Party – a mostly old bunch of out-of-touch white people wanting to return to the inglorious days of yesteryear that were violent and shameful then and are as intolerant and shameful now.” – Deegee
Bwwwwaaaaahahahaha!
April 10th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
But wait, there is more yappin:
“Corruption, conservatives,…. The right is not the party of fiscal responsibility; they are corrupt, and they have and will continue to sell out the country, sell out American citizens, all of us, to corporate interests and big money. In the process they will trample our liberties as they have already shown they are willing to do in their culture wars, which are part backward bigotry and part an effort to retain power by a bunch of predominantly old white men.
Corrupt conservative old white men.
Corrupt conservative old white men…”
Her chanting point abilities are strong!
April 10th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
No “special affection for the MNGOP”. Yeah, if you have to choose between lethal injection and firing squad, you may be spending some time in consideration. Choosing between the DFL and Anyone Else doesn’t take much effort.
April 10th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
“Now, rumor has it there are 5-6 of you who are holding out”
Messrs. Zellers & Senjem, Share with us the names of the hold outs!!
April 11th, 2012 at 9:46 am
“Messrs. Zellers & Senjem, Share with us the names of the hold outs!!”
Chances are that neither of them are going to see that here. Mitch put their phone numbers out there for you, use them. I just did.
April 11th, 2012 at 11:51 am
“a bunch of predominantly old white men’
I think someone needs to FACTCHECK that statement. I volunteer.
Let us examine her terms:
pre·dom·i·nant·ly adv \-nənt-lē\
Definition of PREDOMINANTLY
: for the most part : mainly
Mainly is not completely. So FemaleMongrel alerts us to the FACT that her description is incomplete and therefore inaccurate….but in what way?
Are there some young white men?
some old black women?
some young white women?
some oldblack men?
some young black women?
some old white women?
Having failed to satisfactorily define the target of her slander, nay having not even made the attempt, might we not then conclude that FemaleMongrel meets the required traits of the ignorant, racist, misanthropic breed known as the “cracker”?
Yes. Our FACTCHECK has firmly and correctly established that FemaleMongrel is a cracker…someone please get her a hood.
April 11th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
I called them.
“I am a member of MAPE and I really like this Right To Work legislation”